[Paul Shard]

Thanks for your help Walter,

I will check back in when we have given it try!

Best regards

Paul Shard
Producer – Distant Shores – The Sailing Adventure Television Series
https://www.distantshores.ca

[Paul Shard]

Hi Walter!

Quickly looking at their website I see they take 10% after transaction fees… have you looked into this any further to see how you would sell a series?

Paul

[Paul Shard]

Hi Jan,

Does that mean you could offload onto other firewire drives such as lacie mobile drive?

https://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10655

I wondered since it is “bus-powered” via the firewire connection would that mean the HVX200 would be powering it and basically acting as a computer to control the download? If so that sounds like a VERY COOL camera!

Paul
Producer
http://www.distantshores.ca

[Paul Shard]

Thanks Graeme, now I get it! I have been reading up from Panasonic site on hard-drive device for loading P2. Seems like it is feasible for many people – maybe even us with our long form and long shoots. We are usually away for 5 months and return with 50 hours of footage (or maybe its called “chippage” on a P2 system 😉

For us maybe a $12,000 kit compared to $6,000 for the Z1 but would get rid of HDV problems with resultant bump up in quality.

Thanks for the responses.

Paul

[Paul Shard]

You mean cart a Powerbook and drive on the shoot? Do-able I guess but would certainly be a lot less flexible than grabbing a handful of tapes before heading out. Maybe something like a firestore could capture off the P2 chips while we take a break in shooting for a Cappucino 🙂

I guess a lot of people seem to want to compare this camera to the Sony Z1 since Camera price is similar. But by my calculations its over double before functionality is even close. I gather you think it would be worth the extra?

Paul

[Paul Shard]

So that means roughly $6,000 per hour or recording capacity at 720P24 and $12,000 per hour of 1080i60 footage?

Sounds prohibitively expensive unless there is a workflow I dont understand. Surely most people would want to have the option of recording at least an hour or two without going back to the studio to dump the footage off to the computer?

Not trying to be a wet towel here – I really want to understand?

Paul